WI Rustic Road Century

Benron, I like the Versys a lot. I have been off bikes for 10 years and the last thing I owned was a VX800. This is a lot lighter and much more nimble. I'm still trying to find my way back to cornering fast so its a lot more capable than I am! I looked at the Vstroms, but I dont like how big the faring is. I'm used to a naked bike and the Versys's faring is as big as I want to go. It's also a lot lighter than the VStroms.

I only have four gripes.

1. No center stand because of the under mounted exhaust, making chain maintenance a pain on a trip. Would be perfect with a belt drive. There is a guy on the Versys forums that is making one, (I think he has it done), but it looks kinda... well I'm sure its mother loves it.

2. Seat tilts forward... making your nads the primary cushion between you and the road. After 300 miles I need a break! With the highway pegs I added it is much better. Like sitting in a chair. When I can afford it and can be without a seat, I will send it to Russell for a day long saddle rework.

3. I'm short... 29 inch inseam. Bike is really tall (33.5). There is a lowering kit from a guy on the Versys forum that works well, but Im trying to just deal with it.

4. Back Brake is good for A) Locking up the rear tire for impressive slides; B) Scrubbing off speed in turns. Stopping is not an option without the front. There is no rear feel what so ever. I think this is just a funciton of the very light bike with all its weight forward. Heck there is not even any muffler back there, so when you brake the weight transfers forward and then the rear breaks free easily. Should be good for stoppies if your into that kind of thing.

RR47 on Sunday, 260 mile round trip from my house. What a beautiful day it was - it's day like that that we put up with winters

11 down (1, 32, 34, 44, 47, 58, 62, 74 78, 97, 100), lots to go and there are all far from my house....

Be sure to drag him along. If he balks, tell him to hike up his skirt cause Kevin did it on HIS ST1100!

Wow it's been a while... Need to get back into ADV's forums.

I'm so happy I found this thread! I started the DOT's challenge this weekend. And have almost all the routes on my GPS. Have a summer trip planned for NW Wisconsin and MN... Hopefully will be able to knock off plenty of Rustic Roads.

I'm totally down with the Historical Markers challenge. I'm a big history buff and always stop. I wish someone had a *.gpx file of all the markers...... Maybe I need to make one!

Still 100 RR stickers left??? (one year later)

-Rob

Here ya go-
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=394820

I knew before I even clicked it that it would be one of cannons projects. Pretty cool.

Love the thread... but no attached .gpx file. I PM'd Cannon... But thanks!

He sent it to me a few weeks ago. I cant get it to upload. but I put it on my web site: http://www.mccaa.com/rider/rustic_road_master.gpx

Awesome, Thanks!

If it works, let Cannon know that he doesn't need to send you the gpx. He's out for the week working on another set of .gpx's. Likely, he will update the thread to replace the missing file anyways.

I was there yesterday, and it still doesn't have any signage, so I took this photo:



Maybe I can get a ruling from Powerhouse, otherwise, there's a few more than 100, right?

Also, RR #84 is closed at the moment because of flooding:



Although I do have a shot of the sign with my bike:



I'll try to get a more 'official' one from this road when it actually opens.

I don't know what I am going to do about RR #50, from the descriptions here, I don't know that a mere street bike can handle it.

RR 106 has been missing a sign for some time now. What Bipbap did is the preferred way to document an RR with a missing sign. Note that his picture has both the RR street and a cross street so it is locatable.



From an earlier post:
There have been other reports of signs missing. If you get to a route and the sign is missing, here's what you do. First, make sure you really are where you think you are and at a particular Rustic Route. Double check because the maps in the state brochure can be a little bit vague. Check the other end of the route for a sign. If you've double checked both ends of the route and there aren't any signs, then take a picture of your bike in front of the street sign. I'll want to see the sign for both the street and the cross street.

It is a pain in the you-know-what to look up the intersections to verify routes. If you send me a package with a whole bunch of street signs instead of rustic route signs, I'll begin to doubt your navigational prowess. If other folks have been sending in pictures of the rustic route signs and you don't have them, I might suggest you try a little harder.


Great to see folks out bagging RRs! There are still plenty of stickers left.

Kevin


ps - Don't be scared off by tall tales of rough roads. A lot of the rustic roads are gravel, and there are some interesting elements like sand or minor water crossings that come into play on some roads, but all of the roads I've traversed are rideable by a prudent rider on pretty much any motorcycle. Of course, ride your own ride, your mileage may vary, if all the other kids jumped off a bridge would you jump too.

Looks like at least 3 of us Or more are heading out Sunday the 17th for 10 or so RR between Fondy, Portage, Osh areas.


Joiners may be welcome.....

Dunno? Did they have fun?

Dude you could have totally driven around that road closed sign! And the water doesn't look to deep! Sheesh this is ADVRider, not IDontWantToRuffleMySkirtRider!



In actuality if you do R50, let me know how it is. I am in the area this weekend and might give it a try. I'm on a Versys which is no more dirt worthy than your bike!

What's really funny is the fact that you can clearly see the tracks of others to the right of the signage. Man up!

I'll stick up for ya. I live 2 miles from that road. It is flooded deep enough that you can't see the roadthrough the water. The nice thing about that is... you see that left turn up the road aways... the road turns left there because if it didn't it would go in the river. On top of that they cut down all the trees where the road and the river meet so you can't see which is which simply judging by the trees.

You didn't miss much anyway. My friend lives on that road and his wife was the one who petitioned the state to have it made a RR. I never could figure out why the state did it. Other than the artesian well it is just like every other road in the area. Well, not every road in the area is flooded obviously. But I hardly see that as a selling point.

Ugh, noob attack!



I'll mail in my man card tomorrow.

Thanks for having my back psycho klr.

lonerockz, if I get to #50 before you, I'll post my findings, but if you are going there this weekend, you'll beat me there.

Yeah dude, you got it easy.

Ok, ok, I am lame.